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It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.

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• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Know
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Keeps

• I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • World
  • Work
  • Why

• The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Objectives
  • Incapable

• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing

• I don't write about Google except to insult the company.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Company
  • Google
  • Insult

• I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Funny
  • Mom
  • Couple

• My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Me

• Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Stand

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Different
  • Think
  • Sports

• Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Trying

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.

  

  Vanity
  • God
  • Church
  • Word

• Fred Segal was founded - by none other than Fred Segal - as a tiny jeans retailer in 1968. In the 1970s Segal, began selling space to employees, starting with his nephew Ron Herman.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Space
  • Starting
  • Jeans

• Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Life
  • Career
  • Words

• If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

  

  Douglas Hofstadter
  • Soul
  • Evil

• There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

  

  Frederick W. Smith
  • Free

• There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • American
  • History
  • Past

• Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Live
  • Hypocrite

• I don't even like the word 'relax'! If I have a partner and we make love a lot, then I'm in a very pure state of being.

  

  Carolee Schneemann
  • Love
  • Partner
  • Make

• It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.

  

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